Surgical Anaesthesia

CONTENTS.

SURGICAL ANESTHESIA.

INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS PRODUCED BY

INHALATION, 1846: The First Public Announcement of the

Discovery of Surgical Anæsthesia . .

INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS

ETHER AND CHLOROFORM: Their History, Surgical Use, Dangers,

and Discovery, 1848

ANESTHETIC AGENTS: Their Mode of Exhibition and Physiologi-

cal Effects, 1848 .

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THE DISCOVERY OF MODERN ANESTHESIA

THE DISCOVERER OF SURGICAL ANESTHESIA

A NEW ANÆSthetic. — Kerosolene, 1861.

RHIGOLENE: A Petroleum Naphtha for producing Anæsthesia by

Freezing, 1866

NITROUS OXIDE GAS FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES IN 1848, 1868

ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE ETHER MONUMENT IN

THE PUBLIC GARDEN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, 1868. .

ANESTHETIC INHALATION, 1870. .

DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM and Alleged DEATH FROM Ether,

1872.

THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA, 1873.

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A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF MODERN ANESTHESIA, 1876 134

ADDRESSES AND OTHER PAPERS.

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FRAGMENTS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND ART: An Address, 1846
INAUGURAL LECTURE: Introductory to the Course on Surgery in
the Medical School of Harvard University, 1849 .
SCIENCE AND SUCCESS: A Valedictory Address delivered to the
Medical Graduates of Harvard University, 1859
MEDICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA: The Annual Address read
before the Massachusetts Medical Society